Museum Theory

ANDREA WITCOMB is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and Deputy Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Victoria, Australia. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies. KYLIE MESSAGE is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organizations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements.

• List of Illustrations ixEditors xiiiGeneral Editors xivContributors xvAcknowledgments xviiEditors’ Preface to Museum Theory and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xixIntroduction – Museum Theory: An Expanded Field xxviiAndrea Witcomb and Kylie MessagePart I Thinking about Museums 11. Thinking (with) Museums: From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage 3Tony Bennett2. Foucault and the Museum 21Kevin Hetherington3. What, or Where, Is the (Museum) Object?: Colonial Encounters in Displayed Worlds of Things 41Sandra H. Dudley4. Anarchical Artifacts: Museums as Sites for Radical Otherness 63Janice Baker5. (Post‐) Cartographic Urges: The Intersection of Museums and Tourism 79Russell Staiff6. Museums, Human Rights, and Universalism Reconsidered 93Jennifer Barrett7. The Democratic Horizons of the Museum: Citizenship and Culture 117Peter Dahlgren and Joke Hermes8. Museums, Ecology, Citizenship 139Toby MillerPart II Disciplines and Politics 1579. Reflexive Museology: Lost and Found 159Shelley Ruth Butler10. The Art of Anthropology: Questioning Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Display 183Haidy Geismar11. Change and Continuity: Art Museums and the Reproduction of Art‐Museumness 211Ien Ang12. Cool Art on Display: The Saatchi Phenomenon 233Jim McGuigan13. Contentious Politics and Museums as Contact Zones 253Kylie Message14. Emotions in the History Museum 283Sheila Watson15. The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in the Museu do Oriente, Portugal 303Elsa Peralta16. Toward a Pedagogy of Feeling: Understanding How Museums Create a Space for Cross‐Cultural Encounters 321Andrea Witcomb17. The Liquid Museum: New Institutional Ontologies for a Complex, Uncertain World 345Fiona CameronPart III Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory 36318. The Displaced Local: Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums’ Ethnographic Collections 365Howard Morphy19. The World as Collected; or, Museum Collections as Situated Materialities 389Fredrik Svanberg20. Ambient Aesthetics: Altered Subjectivities in the New Museum 417Natalia Radywyl, Amelia Barikin, Nikos Papastergiadis, and Scott McQuire21. Museum Encounters and Narrative Engagements 437Philipp Schorch22. Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting 459Laurajane Smith23. The Museum in Hiding: Framing Conflict 485Amelia Barikin, Lyndell Brown, and Charles Green24. Preserving/Shaping/Creating: Museums and Public Memory in a Time of Loss 511James B. Gardner25. Sites of Trauma: Contemporary Collecting and Natural Disaster 531Liza Dale‐Hallett, Rebecca Carland, and Peg FraserIndex 553

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